Faculty & Programs

Have engineers played a role in the current policy uncertainties surrounding the power grid and renewable energy? 

It’s an exciting time for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. 

Mechanical engineering and mechanics assistant professors Natasha Vermaak and Ganesh Balasubramanian have been named recipients of 2019 Outstanding Reviewer awards by Acta Journals. 

The awards recognize excellence in their contributions as reviewers for journals Acta Materialia and/or Scripta Materialia during 2018.

A new method of discovering materials using data analytics and electron microscopy has found a new class of extremely hard alloys. Such materials could potentially withstand severe impact from projectiles, providing better protection of soldiers in combat.

Snails secrete a mucous that acts like superglue, allowing them to adhere to rough surfaces like rocks.

Inspired by this aspect of snail biology, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh University and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a superglue-like material that is “intrinsically reversible.” In other words, it can easily come unglued.

George W. Houser is widely considered the father of seismic engineering, which ushered in safer, more cost-effective construction in earthquake-prone areas.

So it’s fitting that a medal bearing his name would be bestowed on a researcher who’s played a similarly foundational role in ensuring the reliability of modern civil infrastructure systems.  

Arindam Banerjee, an associate professor of mechanical engineering and mechanics, and his students developed the Rotating Wheel Rayleigh Taylor Instability Experiment, which studies two-fluid mixing to mimic inertial confinement fusion. The lab, known as the Turbulent Mixing Laboratory, took Lehigh students five years to build from scratch. Watch the video in the Lehigh University News Center.

Civil and environmental engineering professor Sibel Pamukcu has been inducted into the Hall of Distinction of Louisiana State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE).

The Lehigh Microscopy School has been running for nearly half a century.